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Filling the shells
Names of Persian months and their forgotten meanings
By Massoume Price
April 15, 1999
The Iranian
The names of the 12 Persian months are taken from the ancient Zoroastrian
texts and the origins are deeply rooted in their belief system... Khashtra
Vairya (Shahrevar), is the lord of the sky, all stones, metals, and warriors
as wel as the protector of the poor and the weak. It means the desirable
dominion (keshvar e arezoo shodeh). Shahr means country or land and Var
means desirable. Asha Vahishta (Ordibehesht) lord of fire and noontime
heat means ultimate righteousness (behtarin rasty). Asha has many meanings
- righteousness, law, purity, sacred (Asha Zardosht) are only some of the
commonly used ones. Vohu Manah (Bahman) the protector of animals, means
good purpose (nik nahad). He is a powerful symbol of creative goodness
and the divinity personifying the principle of Asha (cosmic order). Haurvatat
(Khordad) protects all waters and means health or wholeness (rasaei and
kamali) ... GO
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Outlook
Investors walk on eggshells: IRAN
Financial Times (London)
April 15, 1999, Thursday
by Robert Corzine:
The buy-back system, unpopular with many foreign oil companies, is thought
to be under review. But putting money into the country still demands a
mix of courage and delicacy.
The opening of Iran's oil industry to foreign investment after almost
20 years of isolation has generated widespread interest among international
oil companies, although the process has proved slower than many on both
sides had hoped ... FULL
TEXT
Top ten signs...
... you might be an Iranian man:
* IF YOU CARRY 3 PAGERS AND 2 CELLPHONES BUT NO ONE CALLS YOU
* IF YOU ARE A CAR SALESMAN AND A SINGER
* IF YOU DRESS UP TO GO TO THE GROCERY STORE
* IF YOU CALL A GAS STATION: "GASS ESSSS-TAYSHEN"
* IF YOU GO TO CONCERTS BUT ONLY TO CHECK OUT
THE GIRLS
* IF YOU NEVER WEAR YOUR WEDDING RING
* IF YOU SMOKE 5 PACKS A DAY AND TELL EVERYONE YOU DON'T SMOKE
* IF YOU ARE 35 AND HAVE NO HAIR ON YOUR HEAD
* IF YOU NAG ABOUT IRANIAN CABLE TV BUT ALSWAYS WATCH IT ANYWAY
* IF YOU HAVE DIVORCED YOUR WIFE BUT WON'T LET HER DATE
Thanks to Jay Rostami
More Letters
* No better than others
Alireza Shemirani writes:
Unfortunately, we're no better than anyone else ["Aaberoo
reezi"]. Shock to the system! Unfortunate as it may be, there
are good and bad people in every country, with every religion, with every
skin color, and in all ages. So, why should it surprise anyone to find
out that we, Iranians, actually do scam the system? Wake up people. What's
the old saying.... "as maast keh bar maast"?
* Monumental kharaab kaari
Nader Naghshineh writes: ...
we should not be embarrassed ["Aaberoo
reezi"]. I can cite an examples of Iranians abiding by the system
as well. Too well that is. One must not blame these people for cheating
the system. They often consider the U.S. as a land of milk and honey and
assume that everything is up for grabs. It is no aaberoo reezi, it is kharaab
kaari on a monumental scale ... FULL
TEXT
* Charity: Worthy cause
Abbas Edalat, whom some of you know (he once taught at Sharif University
in Tehran and is now a professor of computer science and mathematics at
Imperial College, London), has set up a foundation to help with worthy
educational and cultural causes in Iran. You can find out more about this
effort at this web site ... CLICK
HERE
Book of the Week
 Behind the Tall Walls
From Palace to Prison
An autobiography by Azar Aryanpour
Not long after Azar Aryanpour returned home to Iran in September of
1978, following a visit with two of her children in Washington, DC, a state
of martial law was declared. Her husband-the former Minister of Health
and Welfare under the Shah and an American-trained orthopaedic surgeon
who played a role in the real-life events chronicled in Ken Follett's best-selling
book On Wings of Eagles-was subsequently and wrongfully imprisoned. Now,
nearly two decades later, Azar Aryanpour speaks for the first time in Behind
the Tall Walls, an autobiographical retrospective of the tumultuous
events that resulted in the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ...
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awaited
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - An Iranian court is due to issue a
verdict within a week after it ended the trial of a dissident theologian
accused of defaming Iran's Islamic system, newspapers reported on Thursday.
The conservative Jomhuri-ye Eslami, one of a handful of media organisations
allowed inside the courtroom for the one-day trial, quoted the judge as
saying the ruling would be issued within a week ... FULL TEXT
MKO vows to kill Iran officials
April
15, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iranian exiles warned Thursday that the assassination
of a top Iranian general was only a prelude to attacks on other senior officials
in Iran. Farid Soleimani of the Mujahedeen Khalq said his guerrilla group
was prepared for a retaliatory attack from the Iranian armed forces to avenge
the killing of Brig. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi. He said the group was well
equipped with tanks and helicopter gunships ... FULL TEXT
Iran urges U.S. deeds, not words, for better
ties
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday welcomed conciliatory
remarks by U.S. President Bill Clinton, but said Tehran wanted action by
Washington to end hostility towards the Islamic Republic. ``Clinton's remarks
are an admission of the unjust relations America has always had with the
Islamic Republic of Iran, and that is what Iran has stressed in the past
20 years,'' said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by
the official news agency IRNA ... FULL TEXT
Iran opens door for UK, says Cook
London,
apr. 15, IRNA - foreign secretary robin cook has reiterated the importance
for the british government of normalising relations with iran. welcoming
last september's agreement to restore full diplomatic ties, he said that
the upgrading to ambassadorial status had "paved the way for us to
have a dialogue with the organisation of islamic conference (oic)"
under the chairmanship of iran ... FULL TEXT
Iran to cut oil exports 12 pct a month
in 99'
DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it cut oil exports
by 10 percent in April and would reduce them by 12 percent a month for the
rest of 1999, denying reports it was slow among OPEC producers cutting exports
to meet new supply curbs ... FULL TEXT
Iranian visits Baghdad to discuss POWs
issue
BAGHDAD,
April 15 (Reuters) - Iraq and Iran are holding talks in Baghdad on the release
of soldiers held since the 1980- 88 war and those missing in action, an
Iraqi newspaper said on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
Under-21 team to train in Germany
Tehran,
(Iran daily) - The national under-21 "Omid" soccer team will hold
its training camp in Germany to prepare for the 2000 Olympics qualifying
matches ... FULL IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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